City Game Studio News

Hello everyone!

City Game Studio's next major update is almost ready.
I can't wait to make it available to everyone! However, before that happens, I've still got a few weeks' work to do.

So this week, I've been working on the competitors. I've added 13 to be exact. Although their names are a bit humorous, their logos should be recognizable!
Anyway, you can try to guess the logos that have been drawn!

As Ayfri pointed out, there aren't many logos to choose from when you're creating your company. So I designed 10 more.
And I think I'll focus on the logo editor to make it a bit prettier. If I remember correctly, this version was made in 2020.
It's a bit dated, and I've got a few ideas to make it a bit nicer.

Lately, you've been suggesting an extra page to be able to filter the games made by the competitors you've bought out. Also, I'm thinking of giving you a choice when you buy a competitor. You can choose to keep the studios, the employees, the games, the game engines or nothing at all. By doing so, it's more in line with reality. For example, you can buy out a competitor, but resell their game to make some money. The same applies to studios and game engines, but not to employees.

Anyway, I'm going to try to work on it, although I don't think I have enough time to do it for next week, I'm going to try though!

Well, that's it for me!
Until then, I wish you a lovely week.
Take care.
Xavier aka Binogure

Default version of the game, we want to make sure to have a chance to discover bugs and adjust the balancing, to give you the best game experience possible.

Access the Unstable branch on Steam by right clicking City Game Studio in your Steam library, and then select ‘Properties’. In the new window, select ‘Betas’. The Unstable branch should now be available for you to choose from.

Please leave any feedback you may have in the appropriate channel in our Discord, or in the subforum on Steam.

As always, remember to be considerate towards players not partaking in the Unstable, in case they want to avoid spoilers.

Please make sure to make backups of your save files before playing.

[h2]Changelog[/h2]
[h3]Misc[/h3]

• Add 13 new competitors
  
• Add 10 new logos for your company

[h3]Bugfix[/h3]

• Fix an issue when sorting released game panel games

Hello everyone!

A busy week has come to an end, and a new one is beginning.
I've been busy working on City Game Studio, and glad to have made some progress on the game's interface.

I've focussed this time on the published games section.
While it's important to be able to browse the list of games you've published, showing a huge list doesn't really make sense.
Mainly because the game itself has to handle so many games to display.
So while you don't need to see every game you have available on the market, you should be able to view them all.

This is why the published games panel now displays only the 10 most recently released games. You can still view other games by switching the page displayed.
This is useful when you have 50 games published at the same time, and above all, it saves your resources.

Next week, I'm going to start adding more content, mainly about competitors.
If you have any ideas of competitors you'd like to see in the game, I'd be delighted to draw their logo!

In the meantime, I wish you a pleasant week.
Take good care of yourselves.
Xavier aka Binogure

Default version of the game, we want to make sure to have a chance to discover bugs and adjust the balancing, to give you the best game experience possible.

Access the Unstable branch on Steam by right clicking City Game Studio in your Steam library, and then select ‘Properties’. In the new window, select ‘Betas’. The Unstable branch should now be available for you to choose from.

Please leave any feedback you may have in the appropriate channel in our Discord, or in the subforum on Steam.

As always, remember to be considerate towards players not partaking in the Unstable, in case they want to avoid spoilers.

Please make sure to make backups of your save files before playing.

[h2]Changelog[/h2]
[h3]UI[/h3]

• Add a pagination to the released game panel, including:
  • Self-published games
    
  • Trade-published games
    
  • Publishing deal game
    
  • Remake
    
  • Gameport
    
  • Game of the year

Hello everyone!

Yet another hot and busy week!
I hope everything is going well at home! Because over here, everything is going great.

The Banker implementation has progressed well. It fits in well with the game, and makes for much better endgame management.
I think this addition will make the game easier for newcomers to City Game Studio.

Whereas in the past, certain decisions led directly to bankruptcy, now you have a banker to help you out. Frankly, it's one of the best additions of 2024.

Well, that was for the additions of the week just ended. However, for the coming week, I'm planning to add even more choices to the banker, so as to give you even more freedom.

Version 1.20.0 already contains quite a few changes, but I've still got a few things up my sleeve for you. For example, the list of published games on the right-hand panel is nice when you've got 5 or 6 games published. But when you've published dozens and dozens of games, this list becomes difficult to navigate. So I'm planning to rework it to make it easier to read, and to optimize it too.

I don't know if I'll have the time to do all that in a single week, but I'm going to try.
I'm also planning to add new competitors. There are currently 23 different competitors, so it would be nice if I could add at least ten.

Anyway, I've still got a lot of work to do, so I'll leave you to it.
Take care of yourselves.
Xavier aka Binogure